Today I started out my morning with nearly 1 liter of water, preferably filtered. I've become a water snob in the last couple of years, first I had a brita filter, and after I realized that I need to have lots of fresh filtered water on-hand, I started filling large containers and jugs at local stores that have filtered or reverse-osmosis water. I think it makes a huge difference personally. I don't even want to KNOW what's in city water. All I taste is chlorine honestly... Anyway, I digress..
For the past month or so, I've been starting out most mornings with at least 1 liter of fresh squeezed citrus, mostly oranges, grapefruit, some lemon. When I left Vermont, in hopes of making a life in sunny FL (well so much for that), I was like. It's perfect! I'll get a citrus press, I'll have access to soooo much citrus being in FL and all, and hey, maybe I'll even find an orange farm and get a CSA going or something.. (I don't even know if there are orange farms down there that even do that, but you never know). Well FL didn't work out and here I am in Asheville, in limbo, still not sure where I'll be next, almost 90% sure NYC area, but hey.. it's okay, once again I digress. I ended up getting the citrus press after all, a manual one, I want to work for my OJ baby... and it's treated me well so far. There's just nothing like fresh-squeezed OJ. I will never go back to store bought OJ. Not to mention I think most store-bought OJ has sooooo many preservatives and weird chemicals in them. Vs. fresh squeezed.. ahh nothing like it...
ANYWAY, get to the point!
The water and OJ kept me going for quite some time actually. (oh and the coffee :-/)... My original goal today was to mono-meal with bananas, but unfortunately I have about 30 pounds of bananas sitting in a couple paper bags and they just still aren't quite ripe enough. Many raw foodies recommend your bananas to have spots on them and be soft. Not only are they sweeter and easier to eat, they are much more easier to digest, because there is less starch. I always used to hate soft brown spotty bananas, and always preferred pretty yellow ones. But it's so true if you are eating them in excess.. It's super unpleasant to stomach them when they are starchy and unripe. In fact in general it's not recommended. But anyway.. Last week I was at Fresh Market and bought a package of medjool dates. They were delicious! And dates are another great recommended fruit for mono-mealing, because of the caloric content similar to bananas. So I feasted on about 18 dates over the course of 3-4 hours. And that actually felt pretty good, I have to say. I had a good energy buzz going this afternoon, and unfortunately did not get a chance to run today, but hopefully tomorrow. I knew I wanted to do a giant salad for dinner, but I felt like I was going to need some more calories in there, so I picked out 11 of the ripest bananas I could find and feasted on those before my giant salad. Honestly they were spotty but STILL not quite ripe enough.. I felt that they were not going down as easy as I thought they would. So lesson learned there.. make sure they're spotty as hell!!
For dinner tonight which ended up around 8-9, I had a gigantic salad. In the future I'm trying to not have food after 7:30. But I took forever to make my salad and didn't end up finishing till around 9. So I'll work on that.
Tonight's salad had:
5 oz package of baby spinach
2 heads of romaine lettuce
1/2 cucumber
1/2 avocado
1/2 shredded zucchini
1 shredded carrot
1/2 red bell pepper
Aaand. The dressing... it was yummy I have to say... for being low salt, low fat.
1 cup baby spinach
4-5 small stalks celery - for the salt content - celery has natural salt.
1/2 red bell pepper
1 pint cherry tomatoes
Generous handful of fresh cilantro
1-2 sprigs fresh oregano
Juice of: 2 tangelos (I accidentally bought those at the store instead of oranges - still delicious!) and 2 meyer lemons
Blend that baby up! or food process, or whatever you have. High-powered blenders are always recommended - I have the Ninja blender, it's the poor man's Vitamix, which some day I will have. Yes, some day.
And honestly, it was a hit! It had this sweet tangy taste and I could definitely taste the naturally occurring sodium from the celery, which is great because I am struggling with salt addiction - like who isn't, right?
Anyway, at the end of the day, I'd say I feel pretty good. I'm not saying I don't have cravings. They're still there. I've been known to be a pretty food aggressive person when I put my mind to it... and there were many nights where I ate well into 10-11pm. And mostly junk!
My stomach feels a little flippy right now and I'm not sure what's going on. I'm a bit gassy too, sorry if TMI. I'm sure it's processing all the food I've had in the past few days in addition to today's meals. It's probably a little confused, wondering where the cheese is, or the bagel with earth balance. Some people go through a period of detox when they first start out, and I may or may not experience that. I feel like I have a lot of energy right now and my mind feels pretty clear. I'm pretty sure my mind hasn't felt this clear in awhile, it might sound like I'm just saying that, but I swear!! One thing I can take away from today is that my energy was very high and my mind was clear...
I recorded everything I ate today on Cronometer.com, and I clocked in at a little over 3000 calories today. Now the goal would have been for me to run a few miles somewhere in there too. But tomorrow is another day...
Attached is tonight's salad.
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